The J-8FR three-plane formation with the wireless call sign of the instructor searched north from the near edge of the south, and according to the calculation of time, if there were already pirates, then they would definitely be in the process of sailing from south to north. The timing of armed patrols is not arbitrary, but is based on information on passing vessels provided by the commercial navigation department.

Through the navigation information published by international navigation agencies, it is possible to grasp the time nodes of passing merchant ships more completely.

The pirates appeared to plunder merchant ships, and of course they went for them. The West Pacific Pirates are very experienced pirates and are very good at taking advantage of the internet. International navigation information is public, and it is not difficult to find out the sailing route or even the time node of that merchant ship, just like querying the status of the flight.

According to the analysis of past plundering cases, Li Zhan and his colleagues basically determined that every dispatch of the Western Pacific pirates had a clear purpose, rather than robbing any ship they encountered like the Malacca pirates. This kind of pirate can be called a professional pirate, and they live on it.

After the devastating blow, the remnants of the West Pacific pirates should be only a few armed ships of 1,800 tons, but they are still a more formidable maritime criminal force than the vast majority of pirates in the world.

Based on the judgment of all the intelligence, Li Zhan believes that they will continue to maintain targeted raids, determine that a certain merchant ship will plunder, enter quickly and evacuate quickly, and will not drag mud and water, which is their current raiding style.

In the past few months, the remnants of the Western Pacific pirates have looted seven merchant ships, four of which were container ships carrying electronics and one was a Malaysian cruise ship of more than 40,000 tons. Judging from these characteristics, Li Zhan believed that the main target of the West Pacific pirates was to put it on the cruise ship.

What is there on a cruise, there are a large number of tourists, and tourists have a lot of belongings on them. The West Pacific Pirates are very shrewd, and even more so after losing their main lair after a devastating blow. They don't bother to engage in low-level games such as hijacking large oil tankers and cargo ships and demanding ransom, they are fighting a blitzkrieg, grabbing whatever is valuable on board, and leaving after grabbing.

This is also the main difficulty in fighting them.

Li Zhan, Zhong Guobang, Zhu Wei, and Li Zixin discussed the military action against the West Pacific pirates, in which they talked about what kind of development trend the West Pacific pirates will be after that crackdown, and one point of view that everyone generally agrees on is that it is extremely difficult to completely eliminate the West Pacific pirates, just as it is impossible to completely disappear the criminal acts in the human world. After the devastating blow, the Western Pacific pirates will definitely be more cautious and low-key, which means that it will be more difficult to fight them. This is also an essential feature of all criminal acts.

Then Li Zhan of course they have a clear goal, but not one, but many. Oil tankers, cargo ships transporting high value-added commodities such as electronics, automobiles, and mechanical parts are the main targets, and more than a dozen of them will sail on the international waterways in the mission area by 10 a.m.

Therefore, during the vast frontal search, Li Zhan also constantly received more than a dozen clear merchant ships from the tower to clarify the course and movement, and then adjusted the scope of the search according to the specific situation.

The "Instructor" air patrol group and the "Red Arrow" sea patrol group searched and patrolled north and east according to the plan, and they had great hopes for intercepting the West Pacific pirates on the way, at least the plan was as perfect as possible.

As the saying goes, you never know what awaits you in the next second, and you also don't know what others are going to do in the next second. In a war campaign, the most difficult thing to do is to mobilize the enemy and make the enemy move according to your ideas, and whoever can do this will surely be victorious.

For example, the people's army, throughout the history of our army, the magic weapon of invincibility is the textbook-like perfect use of tactics, and the most fundamental point in this is to fully mobilize the enemy and let the enemy go according to his own baton and adjust.

Li Zhan's troops are still too small, if he still leads the Eagle Falcon Brigade, then the next tragedy will not happen, because he has more troops to make a better deployment.

A moment of silence was observed in honor of the more than 4,000 passengers on a British cruise ship traveling around the world. Most of these tourists are Japanese, but there are also some Koreans, Americans, French, British, Australians, Singaporeans, all of whom are one or two hundred, and the remaining nearly 3,000 are Japanese tourists.

Of course, when three armed pirate ships flying skull flags appeared on the front side and met them in a pincer posture, the British tanker called "Queen Berta" did not expect death to approach at first, just as before the "Titanite" hit the iceberg, the tourists on board should have participated in the drinking party, the shock in the car, the painting that should have been drawn, and the whining that should have complained, in short, no one including the crew realized it.

It wasn't until a few shells destroyed the mast and killed the crew on the lookout that hundreds of crew members realized they had encountered pirates, and they were pirates with very strong firepower.

Here's the thing:

It's just after 3 o'clock in the morning, and although many tourists have fallen asleep on the cruise ship day and night, the cruise ship's rich nighttime activities are still full. Men and women use alcohol to stimulate their nerves by listening to songs, trying to find some new stimulation.

More tourists fell asleep, and on the huge cruise ship with a displacement of hundreds of thousands of people that was as smooth as land, the wave height of several meters could not affect the smooth navigation of this behemoth. It is said that if the "Titanic" encountered the iceberg again, it would not sink. It is also said that it would take a dozen anti-ship missiles to sink it.

It's pretty powerful.

The Queen Berta sailed south along the established route on the international waterway, with its next stop being a port city in Malaysia, where it set sail again after a five-day stay. Barring no surprises, the Queen Berta will arrive in four days at the port city of Chicken Coop.

The Kitahi Akikawa couple took part in a round-the-world oil tanker trip from Yokohama, Japan, through more than a dozen famous cities on four continents, and finally set sail back to Yokohama, Japan after the last stop in Hawaii.

As a result, after getting on the boat, Kitahichi Akikawa boarded the other women's boats, and his wife also played with several European men in a good way. In the end, each other's secrets were broken, and the two ran to the deck to quarrel and confront each other. Kitahi Akikawa was furious, became murderous, and pushed his wife into the sea with force.

He stuck his head out of the railing and looked at his wife, who was screaming and falling into the bottomless water, and his heart was inexplicably afraid, and then he heard a strange sharp whistling sound that overshadowed the sound of the waves and also overshadowed his wife's voice, and when he followed the sound to look over, the mast at the top suddenly exploded, and a piece of iron flew over and cut his neck, and he also fell into the sea under the huge impact.

The couple was together forever.

Several shells hit the mast and the building, and the cockpit of the building was shot, killing and injuring more than a dozen people, but the cruise ship on autopilot was not affected. Before everyone could react, a second round of shelling came, this time with more shells, all on the deck. More than a dozen shells fell on the deck more than 300 meters long, and from the point of view of offensive firepower, the effect of such shelling was extremely poor.

But this is a cruise ship, it's a merchant ship, and there are late-night drinks and other activities on the deck right now! As a result, the second round of shelling caused even more casualties, with hundreds of people injured or killed in this round of shelling.

It was only at this time that the crew realized that they had been shelled, and the shells came from the oncoming armed ships on both sides of the front, the two armed ships were at least a thousand tons, and the high-power searchlights on the masts shone in unison, and two huge pillars of light hit the even more huge "Queen Berta" ship.

The two thousand-ton armed pirate ships of the remnants of the Western Pacific pirates appeared, and they did not know how to use to quietly go north here from under the noses of Li Zhan and them, and intercepted the cruise ship "Queen Berta", and at this time Li Zhan and their "instructor" air patrol formation was still more than 100 nautical miles away in the south.

The worst thing is that the first round of shelling damaged the communication antenna of the "Queen Berta"!

Although the two thousand-ton armed ships were as small as small sampans compared to the cruise ship "Queen Berta", the two thousand-ton armed ships had a 76 mm caliber Otto naval gun! If they aim at the waterline position of the "Queen Berta" and keep shooting at the same point, they will be able to shoot through!

Of course, if only 76 mm caliber Alto naval guns were used, it would have been necessary to sink the "Queen Berta" for at least several hours without taking into account ammunition.

The size and displacement of the "Queen Berta" is simply too large, and it is built according to the standard of 25 tons of displacement for each crew, and the redundancy is definitely in the forefront of all ships. Not to mention that such a giant cruise ship usually has a very complete and very advanced damage management system.

It is obvious that no one would dare to risk the lives of more than five thousand people.

Therefore, when one of the armed pirate ships shouted to the cruise ship "Queen Berta" through the international channel to stop the ship, the captain, who hurried from the captain's cabin to the chaotic cockpit, did not hesitate to order the engine room to stop.

More than a dozen corpses and wounded people in the cockpit told him that more people would die if they didn't stop shiping, and that this was a very powerful and extremely ferocious pirate!

When he sent a distress signal according to the emergency plan, he found that the communication antenna was broken, and he could only accept it and condescendingly looked at the rapidly approaching armed pirate ship, and in the telescope, the ship's guns loomed. He regretted stopping the ship, and with the huge body and high speed of the cruise ship, he had a chance to resist. If these pirates who dared to shoot and kill people were allowed to board the ship, perhaps the situation would be even more serious.

Oh that they would seek only money.

In the end, the captain made the right decision, and he used a satellite phone to send out a distress signal.